The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy.
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Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40 years ago.
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American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they outperformed everyone else.
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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In downtown Churchill, Manitoba, it's illegal to lock your car doors in case someone needs to escape from a polar bear.
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In the US, it is legal for women to be publicly topless in 33 states. Male toplessness became legal in 1936.
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